One of the things NLP teaches is that details are important. Details have always been important, of course, but they are often overlooked. A TV show I saw recently had a couple of detectives enter a mosque to talk to the Imam. He has them leave their shoes in the entryway. We see them remove their shoes, and we watch the female detective use her shawl to cover her head. We watch them have their chat with the Imam, and then we watch them leave the mosque without stopping to put their shoes back on before hitting the cold and . . . → Read More: Details
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 Comments are closed  Blog  advanced language patterns, architect, attention, awareness, Big Three, butt, communication, congruence, conscious, details, difference, difference that makes a difference, excellence, expertise, eye-accessing, fast phobia cure, hypnosis, Imam, language, learning curve, left-brain, mosque, mouth, NLP, phobia, practice, predicates, PTSD, research, Richard Bandler, right-brain, sales, sense-based, shoes, sleight-of-mouth, slight, subjective, submodalities, training, TV, unconscious, van, visual CBS News recently ran a segment about the TV show “All in the Family,” which was a hit back in the 1970s. The theme of the segment was about the way the show represented political discourse at the time. Archie (played by Caroll O’Conner), who was an archconservative, and “Meathead” (played by Rob Reiner), an ultra-liberal. I had watched the show with regularity when it was popular, and the aspect of the CBS segment that came as a huge surprise to me was how slender Archie Bunker looked. Back in the 70s, I had thought of him as fat. . . . → Read More: Weighty Issues Comments are closed Blog 1970, All in the Family, Archie, Bunker, CBS, exercise, fat, health, Meathead, perception, physical fitness, slim, snack, soda, soft drinks, TV, weight, well-being |
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Metaphors We Die By (and For)
Way back in the pre-Internet days of 1980, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. This landmark study of the metaphors we use in daily conversations illustrates the ways common metaphors shape our thinking and behavior. One of the examples often cited is “argument is war.” Ideas are attacked, defended, and shot down. We may even “destroy” someone’s theory or “kill” his or her idea.
A few weeks ago, while watching political commentary on TV, it occurred to me that we not only live by metaphors, but also die by them. This is a broader, and . . . → Read More: Metaphors We Die By (and For)
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